CNI News 2.1
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CNI News - Volume 2.1
January 4, 1995
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of CNI News for 1995. The
stories in this edition are:
1) "CYLINDRICAL MASS" UFO REPORTED BY MICHIGAN STATE POLICE
2) ANOTHER TRIP TO MARS IS PLANNED
3) MILITARY POLICEMAN'S CLOSE VIEW OF UFO AT HOLLOMAN AFB
4) UPDATE: SAN DIEGO UFO SEEN BY NEWS REPORTERS
5) LIGHTNING ABOVE EARTH CLOUDS ASSOCIATED WITH GAMMA RAYS
6) QUOTABLE QUOTE
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1) "CYLINDRICAL MASS" UFO REPORTED BY MICHIGAN STATE POLICE
Reported by Hildebrand Communications, Inc.
for United Press International
December 22, 1994
Kingsley, Michigan, December 21, 1994 (UPI) - A Michigan State Trooper
responding to a woman's UFO report Wednesday confirmed seeing "a
cylindrical mass, with a large amount of individual lights."
A 5-minute videotape shot by the woman and broadcast on local
television provided additional evidence that something was indeed out
there, police said.
"This one is apparently a valid report," said one of the trooper's
superiors, State Police Sgt. Bill Sholten. "He is credible. I saw the tape
and there was definitely something out there," Sholten said.
The trooper, who asked not to be identified because he doesn't want
publicity, reported seeing three military jets in the area while the UFO
was near. His report also noted that after the siting, a request for
information was turned down by the U. S. Air Force for unknown reasons.
A Regional Air Traffic Control Center in Minnesota reported spotting
something on radar screens to support the report.
A woman who lives on a farm near Kingsley said she saw the object
hovering above her barn at 6:30 am EST, December 21st. She called police
about an hour later and the trooper arrived at about 7:45 a.m. The trooper
watched the UFO through binoculars until it disappeared about 20 minutes
later. The woman, who got a closer look at the UFO, described the object
as about three times larger than her barn, or some 60 feet in diameter.
She also said it had white and blue lights and what appeared to be a haze
surrounding it.
Sholten said the woman told police she saw a similar UFO on
Thanksgiving, but didn't tell anyone "because she was afraid everyone
would think she was nuts."
[Thanks to Sheldon Wernikoff for these additional details]
WJBK-TV, Detroit's Fox affiliate, reported the incident on the 7:00am news
broadcast of December 23, 1994. The following is based on WJBK's story.
Eyewitnesses said they saw "pulsating, hovering lights in the sky" and a
"cylindrical mass with a large number of individual lights that appeared
to be connected by softer light running between them." The lights remained
visible for 90 minutes.
The object was seen early in the morning of Dec. 21 by Tracy Shayda,
who said it was hovering over her house. She called her neighbor, who shot
a video of the object.
Michigan state trooper Glenn Guldner watched the object for about
20 minutes. He stated, "I really don't know, for sure, what it was. I've
been on several 'lights in the skies' complaints, usually ends up being an
airplane, Northern lights or something like that, but this is the first
time I've actually seen an object in the daylight."
Of Shayda's report, the trooper went on to say, "She thought for sure
everyone would think she was nuts. Prior to my getting there, the object
was a lot closer. It came to within treetop height of her house."
In October, about fifteen miles northwest of the Kingsley area, two other
people saw an object in the sky which they reported to police. Their
description was similar to the object sighted in Kingsley.
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2) ANOTHER TRIP TO MARS IS PLANNED
The January 1995 issue of Astronomy Magazine reports that a NASA project
called Mars Pathfinder will land on the Martian surface in 1997. The goal
is to launch a vehicle into Mars orbit that can then release a parachute
and set of airbags that will float down to the red planet's surface.
"Nestled behind fold-down panels is a micro-rover experiment. The
lander/rover combination will land at the mouth of an ancient river
channel, Ares Vallis, where water flowed eons ago. Pathfinder's target
zone is 60 miles by 120 miles," the magazine reports.
But why isn't it going to Cydonia to investigate the mile-long Face
that computer enhancement scientist Mark Carlotto said "was not made by
nature?"
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3) MILITARY POLICEMAN'S CLOSE VIEW OF UFO AT HOLLOMAN AFB
by Linda Moulton Howe
Philadelphia, PA
December 29, 1994
While serving in the U. S. Army as a military policeman in the 259th MP
Company of the Provost Marshall's Office, John Doe (he has asked for his
name to be withheld) was assigned to Holloman AFB, White Sands, New Mexico
from July 1975 to late 1976. His platoon's primary mission was physical
security for the missile testing range.
Late in 1975 or early 1976, he conducted a security check of a large
gray cement building that was supposed to be a radar testing facility
referred to as RATSCAT. At the far end of the building, there was a large
bay door that could be retracted. Under the door there was a set of
tracks, similar to railroad tracks, that led about 300 feet outside. At
the end of the tracks, there was a large car-port type structure. Mr. Doe
had been told the structure was used to hide aircraft or missiles from the
view of surveillance satellites, once they had been moved outside on the
tracks for testing.
That afternoon under the car-port, Doe said there was an object which
"can only be described as a flying saucer mounted on the tracks in some
kind of support structure that raised it several feet off the ground. The
object was approximately 30 yards wide and looked like if you took one
saucer and turned it over and put it on top of another one. There were no
visible windows that I could see, no rivets, no lines, nothing. It was a
kind of unusual shade of gray in color. It was a flat gray, but it just
looked strange. It wasn't shiny like a military aircraft or anything like
that. It was just kind of a dull faded-out gray color.
"I looked over at a civilian technician who was hurrying over to
Bwhere I was, like he was worried that I was there, and he said, 'This is
operational. You shouldn't be here.' And I said, 'What's the story with
that?' He said, 'Don't worry about it. It's just a device for testing
missile guidance systems or radar guidance systems.' And basically left it
at that. He was in a bit of a hurry to get me off the grounds, so I
complied and left."
John Doe said no one ever asked him about what he had seen and he
never received any briefings about UFOs during his duty at White Sands.
But he said that "everyone there talked about UFOs because a lot of MPs
saw strange moving lights at night." Doe himself and two other security
personnel watched a round object in the sky that had blue, green, amber
and red lights fading in and out around its center. Doe said the object
remained motionless in the sky for hours until the sun came up. Security
checked to see if the object was on radar and was told nothing was there.
Yet, no one else came to check on the object, implying that someone else
somewhere knew it was there and was leaving it alone.
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4) UPDATE: SAN DIEGO UFO SEEN BY NEWS REPORTERS
by Marie Jones
A news team from San Diego's Channel 39 TV went to nearby Vista,
California on December 29 to interview with the main witnesses of a UFO
which had been captured on a 12-minute videotape in late November (see
"SAN DIEGO SIGHTINGS CAUGHT ON VIDEO," CNI News, Dec 29, 1994). As the
news reporter and cameraman arrived, the very same object appeared over
the horizon and began moving across the sky, much to the amazement of nine
witnesses present. The television reporter and cameraman scrambled to set
up their camera in hopes of catching the UFO live on film, but it
disappeared before they were ready. The reporter, Mark Walton for Channel
39 San Diego news, did, however, admit on camera to seeing the object; and
his news report was shown that night, the next morning, and the following
afternoon.
MUFON North County received two other calls from additional witnesses
after the news story ran, including one woman in the Poway area (much
further inland) who reported seeing a similar brightly glowing orb outside
her window for half an hour around 3:00am two days prior.
MUFON North County is awaiting the results of video and photo
analysis of the Vista UFO videotapes. The investigation is continuing.
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5) LIGHTNING ABOVE EARTH CLOUDS ASSOCIATED WITH GAMMA RAYS
For the past year, there have been rumors that NASA satellites have been
recording unexplained gamma ray flashes in the earth's atmosphere, and
some people tried to tie the rumors to advanced weaponry attacks on UFOs.
Now the January 1995 issue of Astronomy Magazine reports:
"When NASA launched the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in April 1991,
[they expected] their first detailed views of gamma-ray sources lying deep
in space. They never expected to observe gamma rays arriving from below
the spacecraft, emanating from Earth itself. But that's just what they
have seen -- brief, intense flashes of gamma rays originating in our
planet's upper atmosphere.
"Using the Burst and Transient Source Experiment onboard the
observatory, Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Alabama, and his colleagues have detected at least a dozen of
these flashes. They last just a few thousandths of a second and contain
very high-energy gamma rays, even higher than those in a typical gamma-ray
burst.
"To avoid being absorbed within the atmosphere, the gamma rays must
originate at least 30 kilometers above Earth's surface, in either the
stratosphere or ionosphere, well above normal weather phenomena.
High-energy electrons in this region evidently emit the gamma rays. Noting
an apparent correlation of the flashes with intense thunderstorm
complexes, the scientists speculate that the electrons arise in powerful
electrical discharges, similar to lightning. Although such discharges have
been seen from high-flying aircraft and the space shuttle, until now no
one suspected they emit gamma rays."
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6) QUOTABLE QUOTE
Thanks to Ken Kraushaar for sending in the following:
From "Space Weapons, Space War" (Macvey; Stein and Day 1979; pg 109-110)
"...probably the most exotic form of alien warfare (though already being
envisaged by scientists on Earth) involves tampering with the electrical
behavior of the ionosphere, the ionized region of the atmosphere extending
from about 50 kilometers to some hundreds of kilometers above our planet's
surface. By punching 'windows' in the ionosphere using nuclear devices,
radio communications could be greatly disturbed, a vital factor if we were
already under attack. Even worse, such artificial 'windows' in the
ionosphere could prove lethal by permitting the ingress of very short
wavelength ultraviolet radiation. Such radiation is known to damage
biological systems, causing skin cancer in humans and genetic damage to
crops."
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